Ancient · Sanskrit
Paramārthasāra
Paramārthasāra, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Abhinavagupta, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text.
Chapters
- 01Invocation, the disciple's question, and the teacher's undertakingprose
- 02Emanation: how the one Lord manifests the fourfold universe and the 36 tattvasprose
- 03Bondage: self-veiling māyā, the six sheaths, and the unfolding of the psycho-cosmic categoriesprose
- 04Error: ignorance, superimposition, and the rope-snake of transmigrationprose
- 05The states of consciousness and the untouched supremeprose
- 06Recognition: non-dual realization and 'I alone am all this'prose
- 07Liberation-in-life: the destruction of karman and the nature of releaseprose
- 08Conduct of the liberated: indifference to merit, demerit, rite and worshipprose
- 09Post-mortem destinies, the fallen yogin, and gradual attainment of Śiva-hoodprose
- 10Colophon-verses: the fruit of meditation and the author's own statementprose
In the atlas
fully mappedFigures
Abhinavagupta · Rāhu · the disciple · the teacher (Ādhāra) · Śeṣa · Śiva / Paramaśiva
Ideas16
Liberation · Māyā · Paśu · Prakṛti and the inner organ · ajñāna-granthi · aṇḍa · jīvanmukti · karman (merit and demerit) and its destruction by knowledge · kañcuka · mala
Places
heaven and hell · holy ford and outcaste's house · worlds of enjoyment of the fallen yogin
Groups
beasts, birds, and reptiles who know the Self
Events
emanation and dissolution of the universe · fire-oblation and recitation reinterpreted · horse-sacrifice and brahmin-slaying · the disciple's question and the teacher's answer
Objects
gem in a casket · gold ornaments · rice husk and kernel · skull-bowl and skull-staff · the rope-snake and household similes · the scorched/husked seed
2 citations · 10 themes · 36 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.